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Squeezed out: last accordion maker in France to close shop after 105 years

Maugein owner blames competition from China and Covid pandemic for firm’s demise, but former French president says there is hope

The Guardian - UK

A deadly hurricane is the latest disruption for young athletes who already have endured a pandemic

The destruction from Hurricane Helene has disrupted the high school landscape throughout southern Appalachia

The Independent UK

Low pay, high staff turnover and employee burnout took a toll on social service nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic − new research

Social service nonprofits had high rates of staff turnover and a hard time filling vacant positions in 2022 as the COVID-19 pandemic was ending.

The Conversation

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Two Major Reasons Why Bill Gates Is No Longer Part Of World's 10 Wealthiest Billionaires: Where'd His Money Go?

Bill Gates, once the world's richest man, has fallen out of the top 10 wealthiest billionaires. Two major factors have contributed to his declining net worth.

International Business Times UK

OPINION - Why Keir Starmer can't spend his way out of the freebie row

It is easy to look back on the 2000s with magenta-tinted glasses. Certainly, there was no major land war in Europe, or a global pandemic. Meanwhile, to be a Eurosceptic basically meant tutting about ever-closer union. Few seriously suggested leaving the EU.

Evening Standard

Houston's Trucking Companies Begin to Feel the Impact of U.S. Port Strike; 'We Can't Move Anything'

Port of Houston shutdown forces trucking companies to pivot, while some businesses, prepared by lessons from the pandemic, brace for long-term impact

Latin Times

Food scarcity in Liberia: how women who run households cope

Liberia, with a population of just over 5.6 million people, is one of the world’s ten poorest countries, with a GDP per capita of US$662.50. The lingering effects of two civil wars (1989-2003), Ebola outbreaks (2014-2015) and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) have left Liberia short of achieving widespread development goals.…

The Conversation

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Experts Blame COVID Trauma For Americans Panic Buying Toilet Paper And Share The Real Reason Why There's A Shortage

Toilet paper shortages in the US are not due to a port strike but panic buying fueled by pandemic memories. Experts advise against unnecessary hoarding.

International Business Times UK

Number of people in UK out of work due to ill health growing by 300,000 a year

Data dashes hopes that effects of pandemic would subside and labour market would return to pre-Covid state

The Guardian - UK

How can we improve public health communication for the next pandemic? Tackling distrust and misinformation is key

There’s a common thread linking our experience of pandemics over the past 700 years. From the black death in the 14th century to COVID in the 21st, public health authorities have put emergency measures such as isolation and quarantine in place to stop infectious diseases spreading.

The Conversation

Return-to-office mandates may not be the solution to downtown struggles that Canadian cities are banking on

In recent months, many Canadian employers in both the public and private sectors have implemented return-to-office mandates, requiring workers that transitioned to remote or hybrid work during the COVID-19 pandemic to work in-person again.

The Conversation

How Covid-19 restrictions really impacted older people’s health across Europe

The Covid-19 pandemic brought a fair deal of stress to everyone, but especially older people worldwide. Between December 2019 and March 2020, 32% of those infected were hospitalised, 2.4% developed acute illness requiring ventilation, and 1.5% – more than 50,000 people – died.

The Conversation

Election 2024 Childcare Debate: Harris-Walz vs. Trump-Vance Plans

As Election Day approaches, the Republican and Democratic tickets present different ideas for childcare and family tax credits. Here's what to know.

Kiplinger

Biden Says Dockworkers Deserve 'Fair Wage' In First Reaction To Strike

Some ocean carriers saw their profits skyrocket more than 800% after the COVID-19 pandemic compared to what they made before, the president said.

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Longshoremen Union Demands Raise For Life-Saving Pandemic Work

Longshoremen's strike highlights their crucial role during the pandemic and their demands for recognition and improved working conditions.

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UTVs See Sales Rebound, Two-Year Downturn Gets Righted

UTVs, which exploded during the height of the pandemic, suffered a little for the last two years. Now they're rebounding.

The Texas Tribune

A battered child care industry’s latest challenge? Competing for 4-year-olds.

A 2019 state law requiring schools to offer full-day pre-K is capturing child care’s most profitable customer base: 3- and 4-year-olds.

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International Business Times

Brazilians Choke As Fire Smoke Blankets 80% Of Country

With as much as 80 percent of Brazil under a blanket of smoke from historic wild fires, face masks last used during the coronavirus pandemic are coming out again.

The Independent UK

Are digital tools a way for companies to retain hourly workers?

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resetting of the economy that followed it made hourly workers more aware of their value

Fortune

Kamala Harris is closing in on the perfect economic message—but the left’s price-gouging exaggerations could undermine it

Harris, unlike some of her supporters, does not assert that universal market failure driven by excessive profit-taking is the cause of inflation.

The Times of India

Marburg virus in circulation, deaths reported: Can it start another pandemic? Read here

Marburg virus disease is spreading in Rwanda and has claimed 6 lives so far. Rwanda's Minister of Health, Sabin Nsanzimana, revealed that the victims and most of the infected are healthcare workers.

The Conversation

How do economists judge Australia’s response to the COVID pandemic?

It was only a matter of time before someone wrote a book about Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. I was expecting it to come from an eminent epidemiologist or public health expert, but it has been written by two economists. As an epidemiologist who covered the pandemic closely for…

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Los Angeles Independent Theaters Experience Renaissance Amid Pandemic

Discover the resurgence of independent theaters in Los Angeles driven by film enthusiasts and historic venues, shaping a unique cinematic experience.

International Business Times

Herbert Kickl: Sharp-tongued Leader Of Austria's Far Right

Austria's far-right leader Herbert Kickl does not exactly cut a dashing figure but he has skilfully tapped into voter anxieties over migration, the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic.

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